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Dollar Seen Continuing Climb,
But Market Eyes Data, Japan

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Molly Schuetz AP-Dow Jones News Service

Updated Jan. 13, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

NEW YORK -- Dollar bulls are expected to chase the U.S. currency to new recent-year highs against the mark and yen this week, as the market focuses on increasing discrepancies between the U.S. economic performance and that of Germany or Japan.

Germany's rising unemployment and Japan's plunging stock market provide sharp contrasts to the U.S., where payrolls are swelling and money is pouring into the stock market.